This book provides an engaging and informative insight into the
experiences, dreams and hopes of children and teenagers in
contemporary Ireland. O'Connor analyzes a unique data set: a random
sample of 4,100 texts drawn from roughly 34,000 texts written by
young people aged 10-12 years and 14-17 years, in response to a
nationwide invitation to describe themselves and the Ireland they
inhabit. The young people's voices give the book a vivid reality,
which is illuminated by the application of sociological concepts
including global and local, individualization, and ways of 'doing
boy/girl.'
The study leads us towards a better understanding of
contemporary social problems by locating these young people's
accounts within the broader context of cultural change where
collective identities have become weaker; where the local is
enmeshed with the global; where children anticipate a predictable
future and teenagers focus on an extended present; where gender is
no longer salient but yet in many ways remains a submerged
framework mapping their life styles, life choices and
relationships. Written in an accessible style, the book presents a
picture that is sometimes challenging, sometimes reassuring but
always informative. Containing extensive quotations, it will be of
interest not only to students and lecturers in sociology,
education, child and youth studies, Irish studies and psychology
but to thoughtful parents and teachers at first and second level,
and especially those whose students took part in the Write Hear,
Write Now project.
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